This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …

STEM-ready students. We find that gender gaps are smaller among high-achieving students and for students who go to school … to decompose the sources of the gender gap in STEM. We find that, of the 22 percentage points raw gap, about 13 … find a smaller gender gap when we include nursing degrees in STEM, showing that the definition of STEM used is an important …

This paper analyzes the link between the subject choices of German students in upper secondary school and teacher … gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …

decline of high school graduation rates by gender helps to explain the recent increase in male-female college attendance gaps. …

growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student … than their non-science counterparts. Students with relatively weaker academic preparation are significantly more likely to … leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more …

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting …

We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test … favoring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non … strongest evidence of a gender gap appearing among whites. However, boys in all racial categories across all subject areas are …

working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …

recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as college …